Automation Articles for Manufacturers and Engineers

The rise of humanoid robotics is transforming light and heavy industrial manufacturing as well as logistics, healthcare and service automation. These advanced robotic systems are designed to replicate human movement with precision, flexibility, and repeatability. To accomplish this, every internal component must operate with exceptional accuracy. One of the most critical components making this possible is the precision miniature and ultra-thin bearing.

Faulhaber’s most recent release is a remix that’s more than the sum of its parts. The DualGear, a combination of Faulhaber’s existing BX4 brushless motor and GPT planetary gearhead lines, is being marketed towards the conveyor and logistics industries. Specifically, Faulhaber is targeting compact designs that need to do more with less space by pitching a drive capable of executing multiple synchronous movements alone.

Medline announced a strategic agreement to implement next-generation warehouse automation from Symbotic, a provider of AI-enabled robotics technology, as part of the company's ongoing efforts to strengthen the resiliency, efficiency and scalability of the healthcare supply chain. According to their press release, Medline is the first healthcare company to deploy this technology.

Chef Robotics announced its robots have completed 100 million servings in production at customer facilities. According to the company's release, this is an order of magnitude more than all other food robotics companies combined, and Chef now holds the world's largest real-world food manipulation dataset and more in-production deformable material training data than any other physical AI company.